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by logifail 3y ago
> why security features are important Being thoughtful is also important. I can think of no reason for anyone to share an innocent stranger's details on the Internet.
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by logifail 3y ago
> Most people don’t expect their phones to be sucked out of airplanes. Most people don't expect a stranger to post photos of their phone's screen on the Internet either.
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by logifail 3y ago
> this weird broken minimal thing Windows LTSC isn't broken, or minimal... it's LTS! It's stable and more likely to remain so. > the point of the effort Installing LTSC takes exactly as long as installing any other v
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by logifail 3y ago
> Probably they go to bed too late? It does eventually settle into some kind of rhythm, although the agreement that they should not take their devices into their bedrooms at bedtime definitely helps with them actually going to sleep at
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by logifail 3y ago
> Microsoft actually makes the version of Windows that people want, but it’s called LTSC and they really don’t want you to have it. Of the devices that still run Windows in our home, all but one of them run some version of LTSC. > No
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by logifail 3y ago
I routinely have to drag our eldest two kids out of bed at 6.25am for breakfast in order for them to leave the house in time to walk to our local station to catch their 7am train to get them into town to walk to school in time for their les
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by logifail 3y ago
> natural sleep cycles make it difficult for post-puberty teenagers to fall asleep before 11 p.m (We have one post-puberty teenager and two other kids) ... our experience is that this does depend on whether you let your kids keep their p
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by logifail 3y ago
> The same thing risks happening with this government-approved online identity [..] Don't forget the Covid QR codes.
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by logifail 3y ago
> Passports are really the primary identity layer of Earth. Umm, I'm not they're not that great as a primary identity either. One edge case is that you can have have more than one valid passport for the one nationality. Anothe
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by logifail 3y ago
> this couldn't have been a surprise to the flight crew ...nor to the airport
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by logifail 3y ago
> And it's obvious that a feral cat kills orders of magnitude more wildlife than an outside cat with a cat flap and consistent access to food (Genuine question) source? My impression from our neighbourhood is that outside cats - who
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by logifail 3y ago
> Avoiding dying, as best one can, is also a natural behaviour Source? Natural selection is about passing on our genes which looks like: reproduce, raise your offspring ... <roll credits>
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by logifail 3y ago
> I can use it to optimize my health and longevity Q: Is it a HN thing to be (obsessively?) interested in health and longevity? Dying is a natural process. Sorry.
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by logifail 3y ago
> it turns out the doctor's alchemical formula only worked in the first place not because of the salt he using, but because of a unknown trace contaminant in the salt Reminds me of reading about "Fogbank"... https:/&
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by logifail 3y ago
> Counterpoint: if something pretty much works without a law being in place, why write a law? Well, I'll see that and raise you: If remuneration packages at Tesla (including in Scandinavia) "pretty much works" (in the sens
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by logifail 3y ago
> Tesla can't call force majeure on a contract it isn't party to Yet Scandinavian workers seem to be able to join in on disputes they aren't party to.
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by logifail 3y ago
> has left to the industry and unions to agree on a lot of stuff (From the outside) it seems hard to understand why something should be effectively be mandatory without being officially mandatory. If collective agreements are to be manda
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by logifail 3y ago
> This is no longer true, I believe (starting Dec 1 2023). You can buy the vignette online starting immediately If that's true then it's possible that Asfinag (the toll agency) haven't updated their website. On trying a t
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by logifail 3y ago
> Interesting though, that's not what the regulations say [..] Of course they don't, but thanks for the specific link! The "gold-plating" - or indeed misunderstanding - of EU regulations has a long and (in)glorious hi
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by logifail 3y ago
If you collect a vehicle in Austria it's almost certainly already got a vignette (pretty tricky for the rental company to operate an Austria-registered vehicle without one). If you collect in your car in Germany, as I did, and drive it
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by logifail 3y ago
> When I buy something on the internet, I have 14 days to return it if I don't like it One (unintended?) consequence of this is that as a consumer, you cannot buy an annual digital motorway toll pass in Austria with immediate validi
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by logifail 3y ago
> Democracy requires suffrage as a right, not a commodity There are plenty of "democracies" where suffrage depends on one having the appropriate citizenship. Full disclosure: I have permanent residency - and pay my taxes - in a
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by logifail 3y ago
> people who have loans, particularly mortgages, which are frequently traded amongst financial institutions, are locked in to a particular company like it or not When we got the mortgage for our house, we went out of our way to arrange i
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by logifail 3y ago
> What would steelmaning EU regs have looked like? A simple "decline [all]" / "accept" choice, not a huge list with dozens of sliders for dozens of options each labelled "legitimate interest" all of wh
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by logifail 3y ago
> a situation where four of the six board members execute a coup against the two most powerful and important board members (the CEO and the chair), the company looks like a shitshow Umm, if it's "one human, one vote" then
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by logifail 3y ago
> ? "OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company" https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai
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by logifail 3y ago
> If we assume everything bad is the work of untouchable dark figures in smoke filled rooms, we'll never confront the real problem of various policies with broken incentives In that worldview I think it's the dark figures in sm
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by logifail 3y ago
There's a .torrent file listed under https://archive.org/download/utzoo-wiseman-usenet-archive/ but I've not [yet] looked at it...
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by logifail 3y ago
> Practice writing down notes on a piece of paper in the dark > Thank yourself later, in years to come I only found out about this many decades after it happened, but on the occasion of my grandfather's 60th birthday, way back in
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by logifail 3y ago
> It is not stealing anything because you get a dialog asking you for permission to do it That dialog talks about sync but notably does not mention credentials at all. Surely this is instance where informed consent is needed, with full d

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